THAT was quite the 48-hour news cycle. WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange, stooped but unbowed, walks onto Australian soil as a free man, a defiant…
THAT was quite the 48-hour news cycle. WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange, stooped but unbowed, walks onto Australian soil as a free man, a defiant tribune of truth against elite power. And on the US TV networks, a compulsive liar beat a crumbling senescent in a presidential debate.
But while delighted, they’re also alarmed at what the specific conviction – a violation of the US Espionage Act – means for everyday investigative journalism. “I had the best environmental numbers ever” – false. “There was no terror during my administration” – false. “We had the safest border in the history of our country” – false. “Immigrants are taking black jobs now” –false. And on and on.Yet there’s an element of support for Trump that is clearly willing to suspend their belief in journalistic process and legitimacy. Trump has shown brilliance, however intuitive, in framing the press as purveyors of “fake news”.
I also think it’s been aided and abetted by an educational era in which the ideas of postmodernism dominated. Postmodernism emphasises that the world which comes to us through our media is always a construct or a spectacle. Trump is actually offering TrumpWorld – an entire social universe you can mentally and emotionally live in. This was anticipated by the famous Karl Rove statement, at the peak of the second Bush term.
In an age of intensifying scepticism about official politics and media, what is the level of social structure that citizens might find legitimate and trustworthy?
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